{"id":1686,"date":"2023-05-12T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2023-09-06T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:45:51","slug":"adding-an-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/adding-an-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding an Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/editing-on-2.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1924 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/editing-on-2.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a>To add an activity or resource, first, turn edit mode on using the button in the top right-hand corner. There are numerous interactive activity modules that you can add to a course section using the &#8220;+Add an activity or r<span style=\"line-height: 25.2000007629395px;\">esource&#8221; button, located in the bottom right of each week or topic section.\u00a0 Some of these activities can be linked directly to the Gradebook for scoring and assessment<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 25.2000007629395px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 25.2000007629395px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/add_an_activity-2.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1926 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/add_an_activity-2.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/add_an_activity-2.bmp 876w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/add_an_activity-2-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/add_an_activity-2-768x124.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 85vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/2-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1927 aligncenter\" style=\"color: #555555; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/2-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/2-4.png 781w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/2-4-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/2-4-768x603.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 85vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The different types of available activities are shown above.\u00a0 Note that more than one can be added to a section.\u00a0 Once an activity is selected, then information about the activity is shown on the help screen on the right.\u00a0 Commonly-used activities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Assignment<\/em> or <em>Workshop<\/em> where students can upload and submit work for scoring and assessment<\/li>\n<li><em>File<\/em> to add files such as Word documents or pdfs<\/li>\n<li><em>Forum<\/em> or <em>Chat<\/em> for asynchronous and synchronous discussion and collaboration<\/li>\n<li><em>Quiz<\/em> for online assessment, including automatic or manual scoring<\/li>\n<li><em>Database<\/em> and <em>Glossary<\/em> allow participants to create and maintain a collection of entries or definitions<\/li>\n<li><em>Wiki<\/em> enables participants to add and edit a collection of web pages<\/li>\n<li><em>Lesson<\/em> offers the functionality to customize content delivery and assessment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To delete an activity, make sure that the editing mode is on. Click on the three dots from the right side of the activity to display a set of options, and then click &#8220;Delete&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/delete-option.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1928 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/delete-option.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/delete-option.bmp 912w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/delete-option-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/delete-option-768x220.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 85vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you will need to confirm this deletion:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/confirmation_delete.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1929 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/confirmation_delete.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/confirmation_delete.bmp 509w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/confirmation_delete-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 85vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you decide that the activity was deleted by mistake, you can restore it by going to &#8220;More&#8221; settings from the horizontal navigation menu and selecting &#8220;Recycle bin&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2013\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-04-at-7.34.57-PM.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/recycle-bin.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1930 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/recycle-bin.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/recycle-bin.bmp 833w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/recycle-bin-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/files\/2023\/05\/recycle-bin-768x323.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 85vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note that it might take a couple of minutes after the deletion of the activity for the recycle bin to appear. The contents of Recycle Bin get erased after 7 days since the deletion of the activity.<\/p>\n<p>In the Recycle Bin section, you will see any recently deleted resources or activities. This will give you the option to either restore or permanently delete the activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To add an activity or resource, first, turn edit mode on using the button in the top right-hand corner. There are numerous interactive activity modules that you can add to a course section using the &#8220;+Add an activity or resource&#8221; button, located in the bottom right of each week or topic section.\u00a0 Some of these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/adding-an-activity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adding an Activity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,15,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}